West Papua deserves Barack Obama’s attention
Originally published in The Guardian In his autobiography Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama recalls a conversation with his stepfather who had just returned home after a tour of duty with the Indonesian military in West Papua. On asking him: “Have you ever seen a man killed?”, his stepfather recounted the bloody death of “weak” [...]
British Government’s double standards on China’s human rights record
The summoning of the Chinese ambassador Fu Ying to the UK Foreign Office in London to explain the execution of British national Akmal Shaikh, sheds light on a growing sense of hypocrisy and double standards running at the heart of British politics and it’s morality. For years the British Government has stood by in silence [...]